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All possible due to the Audiovisual Directive (previously Television without Frontiers). These days a lot of the business the U.K. had in licensing cross-EU has gone to other European countries (not to Ireland, by the way, because of our IBA-esque heavy touch regime, but to the likes of the Netherlands, Germany, and Luxembourg which have regimes more similar to the U.K.). Most U.K. TV broadcasters have had to take out a license in one of these jurisdictions post-Brexit in order to continue to broadcast to Ireland (and most U.K. radio broadcasters have mass exited Irish platforms, though still available via FM/LW where available and more widely via internet). None of this has anything to do with VM, mind you, but is just by way of explanation of what Brexit has meant.